shadowman
OK so recently somebody on here spotted an almost new RC8R that had been turned into a SD type bike for sale on ebay and I really liked it. It was way too new and too expensive for me but it did get me thinking.....
You can easily get an early RC8 for less than 6K (a lot less in some cases) If I could find one with scruffy bodywork or even some bodywork damage a much lower figure would probably be possible.
My 06 perfect black SD with only 6K miles and the round Arka’s ought to be worth 4K ish. In fact if I put the std exhaust back on and sold the others separately something over 4.5K should be possible.
I would then need some flat bars and perhaps some messing around with bodywork / headlight and a respray and hey presto I have an 1190 SD clone with 150+ RWHP and a good time will be had by all.
I just wondered if anybody here had actually done this, how much they spent, how easy / hard it turned out to be and their opinion of weather it was all worth the hassle. Obviously the bike would be virtually unsalable after being neither an RC8 or an SD but I don’t care about that if it’s enough fun.
Seems strange to me that I haven’t heard about this as it seems an obvious game to play. Will be interested to hear the collective SD mind on the matter.
You can easily get an early RC8 for less than 6K (a lot less in some cases) If I could find one with scruffy bodywork or even some bodywork damage a much lower figure would probably be possible.
My 06 perfect black SD with only 6K miles and the round Arka’s ought to be worth 4K ish. In fact if I put the std exhaust back on and sold the others separately something over 4.5K should be possible.
I would then need some flat bars and perhaps some messing around with bodywork / headlight and a respray and hey presto I have an 1190 SD clone with 150+ RWHP and a good time will be had by all.
I just wondered if anybody here had actually done this, how much they spent, how easy / hard it turned out to be and their opinion of weather it was all worth the hassle. Obviously the bike would be virtually unsalable after being neither an RC8 or an SD but I don’t care about that if it’s enough fun.
Seems strange to me that I haven’t heard about this as it seems an obvious game to play. Will be interested to hear the collective SD mind on the matter.
